Debt collection in the Netherlands

Are you looking for legal information on how to collect a debt in the Netherlands?

Debt collection in the Netherlands is the legal activity of pursuing payments of debts owed by individuals or businesses in the Netherlands.

There is a number of important legal issues to consider when you are faced with a Dutch debtor who doesn't pay.
These are, for instance:

• the validity of the payment term
• the validity of the invoice
• identifying your debtor
• sending valid demand letters
• correctly calculating the interest
• correctly charging the legal costs
• adequately agreeing on a payment arrangement
• invoking the retention of title to the unpaid goods
• reclaiming the unpaid (delivered) goods
• interrupting the statute of limitations
• reclaiming irrecoverable VAT
• filing for bankruptcy of the Dutch debtor.

Further legal info on debt collection in Holland

The following webpage, written by Jan Willem de Groot (who is a lawyer in the Netherlands and founder of the Dutch Law Institute) gives you a step-by-step plan to recover your debt in the Netherlands:

https://dutch-law.com/debt-collection-netherlands.html  ...

Hopefully, you'll find this article useful.